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FOIA ONSLAUGHT FAILS
National effort by 2020 election deniers to try to disrupt the 2022 primary and general election by swamping election officials around...
DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL
Even as Macomb County continues to favor the ultimate election denier himself, former President Donald Trump, it’s still pretty...
IN FOR A PENNY UPDATE
Last month, Oakland Confidential noted that Dem donors were all over Democratic members of the House for not ponying up their dues to the...
CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING
Speaking of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham), the 11th District Democrat appears to have a strong lead in her race to return to Congress...
NEXT YEAR, BIRMINGHAM
As we look forward to the waning days of the 2022 campaign (wait, don’t you?), we’re already hearing rumblings of who may be in, and who...
PETERS MEETS THE MURDOCHS
When Michigan Democrat U.S. Senator Gary Peters was named in January of 2021 by Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer as chair of the...
PUNCHING ABOVE WEIGHT CLASS
We were pleased and a bit surprised to see Oakland Confidential appearing as a reference in a recent piece in FiveThirtyEight (538), a...
MOVING ON UP
The latest quarterly rankings of potential 2024 presidential contenders has just been issued by Aaron Blake at The Fix, part of The...
POLLING CHANGES
The accuracy of political polling has been a hot topic since the 2016 presidential election and remains so to this day. So while most...
SCHOOL RACE POLITICS
Like others, we bemoan the increasing injection of partisan politics in the contests for local school boards but it is now a fact of life...
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